Each academic experience builds toward your senior thesis project. It’s required for graduation, and our students tell us that while it’s demanding, it’s also one of the most rewarding experiences of their lives. Here are some thesis projects in International and Area Studies:

“Czechmate: Redefining the Relationship Between Bohemia and the German Empire, 973–1086” by Grayson Chester

“Deposits Grow, Disempowerment Lingers: Economic Status and Social Empowerment in a Women's Self- Help Group Microfinance Program in Rajasthan, India” by Claire Comiskey

“A Regional Comparison of the Causes and Consequences of Differential Educational Outcomes in Rural China” by Naushin Jiwani

“It's in the Air For You And Me': Nuclear Power in France, Germany, Sweden and The United States after Chernobyl” by Casey Morell

“MADRE: An Ethnographic Study of Feminism, Social Change and Women's Human rights” by Erica Lindegren

“Bon Voyage? Tourism and Development in the Caribbean: The Case of Barbados” by Nicole Whalen